Syrup-bottle.



No. 852,360. PATENTED APR. 30, 1907. W. R. WARNER.

SYRUP BOTTLE. APPLIOATIOH FILED JUNE e. 1906.

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WILLIAM RUSSELL WARNER, OF VERGEN N ES, VERMONT. SYRUP-BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 6, 1906. SerialNo. 320,415.

No. 852,360. Patented April 30, 1907.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RUssnLL WARNER, of Vergennes, in the countyof Addison and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Syrup-Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following isafull and clear description thereof.

My invention relates to bottles or the like for containing syrup orother fluids.

A principal object of the invention is to provide means whereby when thebottle is grasped by the hand, contact of the hand with the surface ofthe bottle which may be covered with a portion of the fluid. contents isprevented.

A further object is to provide means whereby the cover of the bottle maybe raised to allow the fluid to be poured out of the bottle without theoperator having to grasp the cover. The top may be raised if desired bythe fingers of the same hand that grasps the bottle near the middle. Abottle embodying these features is particularly adapted to use, forinstance, at soda fountains where a mum ber of bottles are usuallyprovided containing of the bottle and held in place in any convenientway, in the present instance by band 8 encircling the bottle 9, a linkor pull-down running in the guides '7 and connected to the extension 6;10, a hook or other convenient grasping member provided on thepull-down.

he parts so far described constitute means for opening the bottlewithout grasping the cover. The operator may grasp the bottle near themiddle and with either finger or thumb of either hand. may pull down thehook l0, whereupon the cover will be raised to the position shown inFig. 1. Liquid may then be poured out, the hook released, the cover willthen return to its position by gravity, and the bottle may be returnedto its place, the whole operation being very uickly accomplished.Obviously, the pull( own 9 may be of different construction from thatshownit may be a single red running in a single guide, for example.

11, are one or more ribs disposed in any suitable manner around the bodyof the bottle, but preferably approximately vertical; these ribs arealso spaced apart an appreciable distance, but not so far as to permitthe fingers of the operator readily to contact with the bottoms of thegrooves formed between the ribs; 12, indentations, corrugations, or thelike, which may be provided on the ribs to insure a more convenient orsecure grasping of the bottle by the hand 13, undercut grooves either atthe top or sides, or both, of one or more of the ribs, which serve tokeep liquid, running down the bottle, from coming onto the exposedsurfaces of the ribs.

It will be obvious that liquid running down the surface of the bottlewill encounter the tops of the ribs and will be diverted and will rundown the grooves between the ribs so that it will not encounter thefingers when the bottle is grasped' This result is made more certainwhen undercut grooves 13 are employed. These increase the tendency ofthe liquid to follow the normal surface of the bottle and prevent itfrom climbing onto the exposed parts of the ribs.

I believe this invention to be broadly new with me, and I do not intendto limit myself in any respect to details, but contemplate many and widevariations, which may be made without departing from the spirit of thesaid invention.

I claim:

1. A receptacle for fluids, having exterior handle these many bottlesfrequently. With bottles as ordinarily constructed, the attend antshands will quickly become covered with the sticky substances which rundown the body of the bottle from the neck, and he is unable to keep theglasses and other appurtenances which he must handle clean, withoutoften washing his hands. The pro vision of means for raising the coverof the bottle also saves a great deal of time in hair dling the bottlesand pouring the fluid from them.

In the accompanying drawing, an exemplifying structure embodying theinvention is shown:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the com plete bottle wit 1 the coverraised; Fig. 2 is a vertical section; and Fig. 3 a fragmentarytransverse section.

eference number 1 designates the bottle as a whole, which may be of anydesired shape; 2, the neck; 3, a cover or cap fOl'ClOS- ing the bottle,which may be of any desired style; the top illustrated is simply thestyle frequently used at soda fountains and need not be adhered to 4, abracket carried by the bottle; 5, a hinge member carried by the cap andpivoted on the bracket 4 6, an extension of member 5; 7, guides locatedon the body ribs adjoining the main surface of the bottle, closetogether so that they form deep grooves the ribs having under-cutgrooves adjacent between them, the grooves extending continto thesurface of the bottle. uously from one end of the ribbed surface of 152. A receptacle for fluids, having1exterior the bottle to the other, theouter surfaces of 5 ribs adjoining the main surface of t e bottle, theribs being transversely corrugated.

the sides and tops of the ribs having under- In testimony whereof I haveaffixed my gittigrofoves gidjacfbnt to thte surlface dotfr the signaturein the presence of tWo Witnesses. o e or a1 ng 1n preven 1ng iqui om T Tgetting upon the exposed portions of the ribs. WILLIAM RUSSELL Am 10 3.A bottle having a large number of exte- Witnesses:

rior ribs projecting a suitable distance from R. P. BRIGGs, the normalsurface of the bottle and arranged E. P. CARNEY.

